THE BROKEN CHILD

Set 450 years into the future the world has changed.  ,There are not enough females.  , Anna',s laws saved the last females from lives of hardship and were brought into being as a way to equal the balance between the sexes.  , , , Marianna de Montmercy has not always had the full protection of Anna',s laws and even though she lives in Spark City as a free woman she feels trapped.  ,Broken in body, she uses a walking stick to aid her in every day life. Scott Jackson lives in one of the Border territories.  ,His previous chosen was murdered as a consequence of a trade gone bad.  ,He isn',t the same and it is breaking his family apart.  ,Can he understand the reasons for Mari',s differences ,enough to take a chance on love again? Hunted they must stand and fight for what they truly need-each other.  ,_,